stonesam92

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by stonesam92 1y ago
The exchange is not taking the other side of the bet; they're just matching you up with another user who wants to take the opposite position to you and then taking a fee for providing that service.
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Coinbase gets e-money license in the UK(techcrunch.com)
3 points by stonesam92 9y ago|0 comments
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by stonesam92 9y ago
Did you contact Anker? Among the many products I've bought from them, I've had a couple of problematic ones, but have found that in these cases their support has been very helpful and sent me a replacement, even a year or so after
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by stonesam92 9y ago
If that were the case and USPTO were in on the trick, why the need to drop HTTPS? They'd have that data already, so could just share it directly.
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by stonesam92 10y ago
This reminds me of "The Wikipedia Game" we'd play at school. You'd all start on one random page, and race to get to some completely unrelated target page, only by clicking through links to other pages. It was always surp
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by stonesam92 10y ago
I'm pretty sure that when you register a Homebridge instance to your Apple device though you get a message about the accessory being in test mode. Homebridge is presumably making use of some debug mode that you wouldn't use in a s
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by stonesam92 10y ago
I think that the "if-then" part is a simplification of imperative paradigms. I've never heard it described that way, but I assume the part about "pin pointed procedures" tied to data is a weird way of describing the
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What to do with the “rm -rf” hoax question(meta.serverfault.com)
115 points by stonesam92 10y ago|65 comments
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by stonesam92 11y ago
Don't most large organisations require something similar with their own open source projects? I know Google and Facebook do. It's just a way of confirming that you own the rights to your contribution, and that you explicitly give
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by stonesam92 11y ago
Ah, I'd never seen the "Members" tab until you pointed it out. I agree, that could indeed be misleading and doesn't seem very useful!
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by stonesam92 11y ago
You don't become listed as a contributor by merely forking a repo, your fork is just included in the original project's "forks" count. The project is included in a user's "Repositories contributed to" area
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by stonesam92 11y ago
It's sarcasm. Industry analysts and the media often claim that Apple is doomed, but given their earnings obviously this is far from the case.
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by stonesam92 11y ago
While it certainly comes off as demanding, I think it's important to remember that English is not necessary the OP's first language. "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." Note: &quo
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by stonesam92 11y ago
The part about increasing the revenue cut is unfounded, but I assume the seconds part of that line is in regard to Apple News[1]. [1] https://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/i-do-not-agree-to-your-terms....
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by stonesam92 11y ago
Thanks a lot! I just merged it.
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Show HN: WhatsMac, WhatsApp Web in a native Mac app wrapper(github.com)
7 points by stonesam92 11y ago|3 comments
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by stonesam92 12y ago
What happened to your 2011 MBP? If it was graphics card related, Apple just launched a repair program: https://www.apple.com/support/macbookpro-videoissues/
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by stonesam92 12y ago
Interesting that they mention Netflix before Amazon Instant Video in the description. "It's an easy way to enjoy Netflix, Amazon Instant Video, Hulu Plus, YouTube.com, music, and much more"
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by stonesam92 13y ago
However even if someone picked the project up again it wouldn't run on any modern devices, since the last iPhone to have an untethered bootrom exploit was the 3GS.